Mr. De Morgan’s Habits of Work

June 1908 · The World’s Work

Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker Estate account · Original source: English

Estate summary

Bram visits William De Morgan at The Vale in Chelsea to discuss his late start as a novelist, Evelyn’s encouragement and the making of Joseph Vance. Their conversation ranges from ceramics and a patented bicycle gear to the struggle of shaping plots and characters. De Morgan describes writing without a scenario and preferring the quiet of Florence.

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Original American publication inspected: The World’s Work, vol. XVI, June 1908, pp. 10337–10342, digitised from the University of Toronto copy. Six complete original pages are saved here, including the portrait and the beginning of the following article on the final page. The July 1908 British version remains to be collated. A four-page reproduction of the July 1908 British version has now been downloaded from BramStoker.org and its opening and ending visually inspected; full comparison of the two versions remains open.

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